New Job!

As some of you have already heard, I've finally landed back in the world of architecture! Sports architecture to be exact. Yes indeed...a full time gig here in Philly. It's with a firm whom I've been talking to for quiet some time now. Many interviews, lunches, and even a breakfast right at the end with the firms president that I think sealed the deal. After that we ironed out the details and I started on Halloween of all days.

I've been there a few weeks now and it's been great. I'm involved in a few interesting professional and collegiate sports projects that are keeping me extremely busy. There have already been a few late nights but it's what I enjoy doing most so I don't mind at all. It's a really great group of folks too and I'm excited to be a part of the team.

So...with a new job in my back pocket we put on our glad-rags and set out for a celebratory dinner.

We chose a place called 10Arts. It's a bistro/lounge by famous NYC chef Eric Ripert that's inside of the Ritz hotel on Broad. [It's a bit ironic to have eaten here as I had just finished Anthony Bourdains' book "Kitchen Confidential" and he mentions Ripert many times throughout. Very good book too and an intriguing look inside the darker side of the restaurant business!]

Once again we were eating dinner in a converted bank building and the interiors were stunning!

We arrived a few minutes early for our table so we found a seat at the bar for a few drinks.

Once seated we had some tough decisions to make! I started off with the fried and breaded oysters while Kel went with the creamy cauliflower soup, both delicious.

For the main course I had the striped bass with mussels and yukon golds and Kelly chose the tagliatelle pomadoro. I had to switch out the bass for cod since they had run out. Oh well.